Embedding audio and video into this blog makes me think of how far things have come from the days when I held the microphone of my treasured Aiwa TP-32A to the TV speaker and recorded Star Trek. Forty years isn’t a long time … is it?
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Hoffman, Philip Seymour
My favorite actor is Philip Seymour Hoffman. I don’t know if Capote is the best thing he’s ever done, but it certainly beats Love Lisa. Here is Hoffman winning his Oscar™.
Pratt Attack – 2
Bill Pratt’s stage name was Boris Karloff. Pratts don’t always make friends easily.
A Watery Grace
Was Grace Kelly ever nude in a movie?
Come back, little Eva•tone
Eva•tone Soundsheets were fun. They were more generically called flexi-discs. I have a few, and I’ll get around to transferring and posting them. There’s precious little information available about these earliest of floppy discs, even from Eva•tone; which is still in business, but ceased soundsheet production in 2000.
Here’s a flexi-disc from the early 1970’s with an interview of Batman comic-book writer Denny O’Neil. A much more recent interview with O’Neil is on the Batman Begins DVD.
Dial V for Video
This is an attempt at embedding a video that’s not from YouTube. One of my own. Let’s try the opening credits from Alfred Hitchcock’s Dial M for Murder, because it happens to be handy and it’s short.